Interview Excerpt: Zimmerman “Got Away With Murder” Lyrics

You can't put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty, but we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence.

George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from God. And at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with. [But] the law couldn't prove it.

I was the juror that was going to give them the hung jury. I fought to the end.

That's where I felt confused, where if a person kills someone, then you get charged for it. But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can't say he's guilty.

I felt like this was a publicity stunt. This whole court service thing to me was publicity.

I felt like I let a lot of people down, and I'm thinking to myself, 'Did I go the right way? Did I go the wrong way?'

As much as we were trying to find this man guilty…they give you a booklet that basically tells you the truth, and the truth is that there was nothing that we could do about it. I feel the verdict was already told.

It's hard for me to sleep, it's hard for me to eat because I feel I was forcefully included in Trayvon Martin's death. And as I carry him on my back, I'm hurting as much [as] Trayvon's Martin's mother because there's no way that any mother should feel that pain.

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In a July 25, 2013 interview with “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts, Juror B29 in the trial of George Zimmerman, charged with the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, spoke out on the “not guilty” verdict she reached with her fellow jurors. Going only by her first name “Maddy,” she expressed her frustration with the process and her regret that “I let [the Martins] down.”

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